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t E. s. WOODFORD. MACHINE FOR SEWING PINS UPON PAPER OR ANY OTHER MATERIAL! Patented July 22, 185-6.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

E. s. WOODFORD, 0F WINGHESTEB,-CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORTO JAMES R. KEELER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MACHINE FOR SEWING PINS UPON P'APER OR ANY OTHER MATERlAL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. [5.404, dated July 92, 1856.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, E. S. WOODFORD, of Winchestenin the county of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Machine for Sewing Pins upon Paper or upon any other Material; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of the machine. vFig. 2 is a sectional view of the sliding plate, to which the perpendicular needles are attached that form the loop.

Letter A is a series of conductors. Letter B is the elastic separator. G is a turn-table. D is the ratchet-plate. E is the wheels with notches. F is the perpendicular conductors. G is the sliding plate,'to which is attached the horizontal needles. .H is a cam. I is a crank. K are cog-wheels. L is an eccentric. M are ratchet-\vheels. N are levers. O is'a roller. P is a shaft. R is a cam. S is a bar. lever. a is a spiral spring. Qi is a shoe.

The pins are placed in a hopper'attached to the upper end of the conductors A, and by ajarring motion a constant supply is shaken out upon the conductor. The body of the pin drops through the slot in the conductor and is sus pended by the head. A column of pins in the conductor is thus pressing against the separator B, whichis turned by lever N sufficient to let one pin at a time pass under it as often as is required, dropping dowp the conductorinto the turn-table O. The point of the pin as it falls from the separator B strikes a bar, throwing the head over, laying it horizontally in turn table 0. The ratchet-bar S is now moved by lever T, carrying turn-table 0 around sufiiciently to allow the pin (lying in the slot in said turntable) to drop into the perpendicu- Tisa' lar conductor F, on the top of which saidturntable 0 revolves. The pin now passes down the conductor F onto the periphery of wheels E. As wheels E'are turned by eccentric L and lever N, the pins dropinto the notches in the periphery of the wheels, and are brought down in front of the needles, to be sewed upon the paper. The paper is upon roller 0, and passes down in front ofwheels E, bar S pressing it against said wheels, ll'olding the pinsin the notches after they pass below shoe r. The sliding plate .G, (and No. 2,) to which are attached the horizontal and perpendicular needles, is now driven forward and upward, sewing the pin fast to the paper, being still in the notches of the wheels. The feed motion is given to the paper by the partial revolution of wheels E, the pin last sewed being held inihe periphery of said \vheels'by bar S,'the wheels E receiving a constant supply of pins from conductors F, (as they revolve under them,) bringing them down against the paper to be sewed. The whole; machine is operated by turning crank I.

\Vhat 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-'- 1. The roller or separator (marked B) made ofindia-rubber or other elastic substance, also the turn-table (marked 0) for receiving and changing the pins from one place or position to another, or their mechanical equivalents.

2. The combination of one or a series of con ductors for supplying pins in any desirable position, and a sewing machine of any suitable adaptability for sewing pins upon paper or any other material; but I do not make any claim to either of these elements of the 001ml)? nati on by itself.

E. S. \VOO DFORD. WiitllOSSQS:

S. W. Cox, L. B. WHEELooK. 

